Matthew Singer

Ball is life, they say, which is what makes basketball such a popular conduit for movie drama. Because it’s never just about the game on the court – although the game itself is as fast and furious as any action scene – but the stories that surround it, from players desperate to transcend the situation they were born into to coaches in search of redemption to teams pulling together to pull off the ultimate upset. Or, y’know, a legendary athlete joining with famous cartoon characters to defeat some evil monsters. Sure, sports like baseball and boxing are more entrenched in the American mythos, and thus have inspired more classic Hollywood movies. But b-ball has its share of awesome films, too, whether they take place at the pro, college or street level, on the hardwood or the asphalt, in packed arenas or outer space. Here are 18 of the GOATs. Recommended: 🏆The 50 best sports movies of all-time, ranked🥊 The 10 best boxing movies of all-time⚾ The best baseball movies of all-time🥇 The best Olympic movies

Is it safe to say movies are back? Sure, there’s still plenty of anxiety around the film industry and its future. But cinematically speaking, 2026 has gotten off to, arguably, the most blazing hot start since the pre-pandemic glory days, both critically and at the box office.  Of course, for our purposes, we like to focus on the creative successes, and it’s rare for the first quarter of any year to produce so many achievements of various scopes and budgets. Any time you get both a Project Hail Mary and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – not to mention leftfield triumphs like The Testament of Ann Lee, Sirât and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – all before the calendar’s halfway point, you know it’s a good time to be a film fan, especially when there are new spectacles from Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Marvel and the Dune franchise on the horizon.  But that’s later. Here’s the best of what we’ve seen so far.  📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025

Sometimes, all you want out of a movie is to make you feel good. It’s a stressful world, especially these days, and the best way to snap out of a funk is to flop on the couch and throw something light and easy on Netflix. And the streamer has plenty of cinematic sunshine waiting to be injected directly into your nervous system.  It’s important to know what you’re putting on, however. Not every movie is designed to provide the dopamine rush to help ease your anxiety; some will make it worse. So before taking a hit of vitamin PG, peruse this list of musicals, romantic comedies and animated flicks comprising the 30 best feel-good movies currently on Netflix. They’re guaranteed to cure what ails you. Recommended: 🤣 The 100 best comedy movies💃 The 40 best musical movies👪 The best family movies on Netflix for all ages

The horror business is booming right now. Over the last few years, it’s become one of the movie industry’s most bankable genres, financially and creatively. Ryan Coogler has already made Oscar-nomination history with a vampire flick of all things, while the combination of Barbarian and Weapons has made director Zach Cregger one of Hollywood’s most exciting new voices – and that’s to say nothing of the huge box-office success of franchise entries like The Conjuring: Last Rites, Final Destination Bloodlines and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.Only a few months into 2026, and the year in horror is already off to another good start, between 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, entertaining killer monkey ripper Primate and Sam Raimi’s return-to-form, Send Help. Nothing on the docket for the rest of the year immediately screams ‘blockbuster,’ but that’s the great thing about horror: like a bump in the night, the hits often come from unexpected places. Here’s what has stood out like a bloody knife so far. 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)🧟 The 100 greatest horror movies ever made

In cinematic terms, Easter is something of a forgotten holiday. The day doesn’t really have a quintessential movie dedicated to it, unless you count, say, The Passion of the Christ - and if you’re looking for something to watch with the family that won’t traumatise the youngest members, it can be like searching for an egg in the Amazon. Don’t worry, though: we’ve done the scouring for you. We’ve arranged a basketful of all-ages delights to entertain the entire flock, including animated flicks starring mischievous rabbits and the Peanuts gang, a classic Technicolor musical to a romcom about Beatrix Potter. Recommended: 👪 The best family movies of all-time🤣 The best funny family movies🧒 The best movies for toddlers🐶 The best animal movies for kids

When you think of documentaries on Netflix, you usually think of true crime. Indeed, the streamer has made a cottage industry from stories of murder and mystery, some which, like Making a Murderer and The Perfect Neighbor, represent the top shelf of the subgenre. But the platform’s now-vast nonfiction catalogue goes much deeper than that. If you’re willing to search, you’ll find everything from concert films to sports dramas, in-depth celebrity profiles to journalistic investigations to, yes, salacious tabloid fodder à la Tiger King. But why scroll when we’ve already done it for you? Here are the 30 best docs currently on Netflix.Recommended: 📹 The best documentaries of all-time🔎 The best true crime documentaries on Netflix🇳 The best movies on Netflix right now

Updated for 2026: Whatever you think of Netflix’s theatrical strategy, it continues to produce some of television’s most formally daring works, including Adolescence, a hard-to-watch but impossible to ignore limited series about an unimaginable crime. On the other end of the spectrum, there’s HBO’s hilariously profane The Righteous Gemstones, which stuck the landing in 2025 with its final season. In addition, we have moved Andor into the top 20 after its astounding second and final season.  Television used to be considered one of the lowest forms of entertainment. It was derided as ‘the idiot box’ and ‘the boob tube’. Edward R Murrow referred to it as ‘the opiate of the masses’, and the phrase ‘I don’t even own a TV’ was considered a major bragging right.  A lot has changed. Television is now the dominant medium in basically all of entertainment. The shift in perception is widely credited to the arrival of The Sopranos, which completely reinvented the notion of what a TV show could do. But that doesn’t mean everything that came before is primordial slurry. While this list of the greatest TV shows ever is dominated by 21st century programs, from The Wire to Succession to Adolescence, there are many shows that deserve credit for laying the groundwork for this current golden age.  Chiseling them down to a neat top 100 is difficult, so we elected to leave off talk shows, variety shows and sketch comedy, focusing on scripted, episodic dramas, comedies and miniseries. So don’t touc

It’s a worn-out joke at this point: you settle in to watch a movie on Netflix, and end up spending so much time trying to decide what to watch you give up and just look at TikTok or something until passing out on the couch. Hey, it’s funny because it’s true. But it doesn’t have to be.  Even as its status as the vanguard of the streaming revolution has taken a hit in recent years, the numbers show that Netflix is still king of the streamers, and boasts enough must-see movies that it’d take a busy person years to get through them all. To help you avoid the endless scroll, we’ve assembled this list sorting the great from the gunk. Whether you’re in the mood for a romcom, a historical epic, a thought-provoking doc or Jacob Elordi as an emo Frankenstein’s monster, you’re bound to find something that’ll entertain you tonight.  Recommended: 💻 The 40 best Netflix original series to binge👪 The best family movies on Netflix for all ages😬 The 20 best thriller movies on Netflix

America is in the throes of true-crime addiction, and Netflix deserves a good share of the credit (or blame). Starting with Making a Murderer, the streamer has made documentaries chronicling murders, vanishings and other mysterious happenings one of its main tentpoles, and in turn has helped move true crime from pop culture’s trashy margins to the centre of the entertainment conversation. Is that a good thing – that we’ve turned sordid, often gruesome tragedies into gristle for the content machine? Really, that’s a discussion for another time. Because if you’re already hooked, all you really want to know is what you should watch next. Netflix is overflowing with true-crime docs, but in the rush to capitalise on the craze, not all of those on offer are worth even the most obsessed fan’s time. The following, however, all deserve a binge. Recommended: 📹 The best documentaries of all-time💻 The best Netflix documentaries to stream in the US🔪 The best serial killer movies 

Whatever you may think of Disney as a corporation, years of swallowing up other media companies has grown its streaming platform into an entertainment goldmine. Not only is it a one-stop shop for just about everything the House of Mouse has ever produced, it’s also where you’ll find all things Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel, plus insightful documentaries, concert films and live Broadway productions. With such a hefty catalogue, finding exactly what you’re looking for can be overwhelming. With that in mind, we’ve dug through all of Disney+ offerings to find the true cream of the crop. Here are 60 of the platform’s can’t-miss titles. Recommended: 🐭 The 50 best Disney movies for family night🦸All the Marvel movies ranked from worst to best👾 The 52 best Star Wars characters

Let the normies do their October horror marathons: for true fright fans, every season is spooky season, and anytime is the right time for a horror movie. Netflix has enough scary movies to fill your entire calendar. Unfortunately, there’s a difference between ‘horror’ and actually being horrifying, and not all of the streamer’s offerings are guaranteed to scare your pants off. If you don’t want to waste a night yawning when you should be screaming, we’ve pulled together this list of the best horror movies on Netflix. It’s a chilling mix of old reliables and modern classics, bloody blockbusters and indie shock-a-thons. All of them are sure to give you nightmares. Recommended: 💀 The best horror movies of all time🇳 The best movies streaming on Netflix💻 The best Netflix original series to binge

The prudes have inherited the movies. If you’ve followed the ongoing debate over sex scenes on social media over the last few years, then you’ll know that Gen Z has strong opinions on cinematic boning: they’re against it. The argument goes that sex scenes rarely add anything to the plot of a movie, nor develop characters. It’s a flawed viewpoint, but in fairness, given Hollywood’s general shift away from showing sexuality on screen, it’s entirely possible that younger folks have simply never seen a good sex scene.  Well, allow us to offer a counterpoint – 101 of them, to be exact. On this list of cinema’s greatest sex scenes, you’ll find multiple examples where a roll in the hay is meant to convey more than just mere titillation – it’s part of the story itself. In some cases, sex is a punchline. In others, it’s downright horrifying. Sometimes it’s supposed to make you uncomfortable. And sometimes, yes, it exists to be arousing. But there’s value in that, too. Written by Dave Calhoun, Joshua Rothkopf, Cath Clarke, David Ehrlich, Phil de Semlyen, Daniel Walber, Trevor Johnston, Andy Kryza, Daniel Walber and Matthew Singer Recommended: 🕯️ The steamiest erotic thrillers ever made🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time❤ The 100 best romantic films of all-time😬 The 50 most controversial movies ever made💪 The 100 best feminist films of all-time

Adulthood is often compared to a treadmill for the way the daily grind of responsibilities and obligations manufactures the illusion of forward progress, keeping us running after goals that remain out of reach until we collapse in the same place we started.  But what if life is actually more like an inescapable underground station, where every corridor looks identical and the walls occasionally drip blood and produce hallucinations of crying babies and mutated rats? That’s where director Genki Kawamura takes us with his video-game adaptation. Same difference, maybe, but a much more useable concept for a horror movie.  A sparse, small-scale mindbender, Exit 8 is based on the viral video game of the same name and, for the first few minutes, plays like it. An unnamed young man (Japanese pop star Kazunari Ninomiya) rides a cramped subway train to his temp job in Tokyo. As he disembarks, he receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend. She’s pregnant. In his disorientation at the news, it takes him a moment to realise he’s walking in circles – down the same white-tiled hallway, past the same robotic NPC carrying a briefcase.  All that tablesetting is presented in a single, unbroken POV shot; once the protagonist recognises that something is amiss, the perspective changes, and that’s when the game, for him, truly begins. A helpful placard explains the rules: ‘If you find an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you do not find any anomalies, do not turn back.’ The goal, of course, is

French actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) has a face filmmakers love. Creased and pockmarked, with a bulbous nose and prominent ears, it’s the sort of visage that’s compelling to watch do practically anything. It serves Swedish director John Skoog’s oddly mesmerising monochrome folk tale particularly well, considering it’s essentially 90 minutes of watching one man’s massive DIY home renovation project. Call it ‘This Old Fortress’. Inspired by true events, it’s a story of fruitless obsession ​that Werner Herzog must be kicking himself for not discovering first. At the peak of the Cold War, Karl-Göran Persson, a farmhand in rural Sweden, dedicated his twilight years to transforming his modest cottage into a communal fallout shelter, or ‘redoubt.’ (In Swedish: ‘värn.’) Harvesting scrap metal, wood and whatever other junk he could get his hands on, then blowing his pension on concrete, he successfully constructed a fortification for a war that never came. Persson’s single-minded devotion is reflected in the filmmaking. Spinning off from his own award-winning art installation, Skoog and his crew rebuilt the shelter from scratch, and much of the runtime is given to observing Lavant, as Persson, gather and lay the materials. He jerryrigs a system to haul a pair of weighty railroad ties on his bike. He nearly saws down his favourite shade tree all by himself. He walks home swaddled in old t​yres, begrudgingly donated by a nearby garage. In his brief moments of leisure, he jams on ​the

‘When you are on a sinking ship,’ George Orwell wrote in 1948, ‘your thoughts will be about sinking ships’. He was describing the way fascism occupies the thoughts of those under its thumb, muting all other concerns, whether personal, political or trivial. Members of the Way-Too-Online Generation can certainly relate. After all, we now all carry tiny anxiety machines around in our pockets, creating a sense of hyper-awareness to the world’s atrocities that allows precious little room for comforting distractions.  In his documentary-cum-video essay Orwell: 2+2=5, director Raoul Peck juxtaposes the British writer’s words with a flood of the same distressing images inundating our social media feeds, from Ukraine to Gaza, South America to the United States. The film’s anti-mathematical title refers to a concept explored in Orwell’s most famous book, the dystopian sci-fi milestone 1984, of how despotic regimes reshape objective truth to their whims. It could just as easily be called Doomscroll: The Movie. The point, of course, is that the ship has been sinking for a long time, and Orwell saw the iceberg coming from a century away. Born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, the author grew up in colonial India as part of what he called a ‘lower-upper-middle class’ family, spent a regrettable stretch participating in ‘the actual machinery of despotism’ as a member of the imperial police in Burma, then dedicated his career to not just critiquing totalitarianism but outlining its playbook. Drawin

How often does the best romantic comedy of the year also contain the year’s best fight scene? Probably as often as any romcom starts with a man standing over a dead stranger on the side of the highway, his penis unknowingly dangling from his shorts. Splitsville is full of surprises. Written by co-stars Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, and directed by Covino, the duo’s second feature is a screwball sex farce for an age when even the most buttoned-down couples are exploring ‘ethical non-monogamy’. Marvin is a cuddly schlub in the Jason Segel mold. Covino is his wealthier, hairier, more dickish best friend. Both are punching above their weight when it comes to their wives: the former is married to Andor’s Adria Arjona, the latter to Dakota Johnson. In a desperate bid to keep them from coming to their senses, both husbands propose opening their respective marriages — the ramifications of which neither is prepared to deal with. Of course, movies about normies awkwardly dabbling in polyamory go back at least as far as 1969’s Bob & Carole & Ted & Alice, and there are endless comedies involving dumb guys undone by their own insecurities. What makes Splitsville stand out? Simply put, it’s goddamn hilarious.  What makes Splitsville stand out? Simply put, it’s goddamn hilarious With 2019’s The Climb, another film about friends overstepping the boundaries of fidelity, Covino and Marvin placed themselves in the bromantic lineage of Judd Apatow, only with a greater penchant for slaps

Strange, ravishing and rhapsodic, there aren’t many movies like Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, unless you can think of another historical folk musical about a nearly-vanished religious movement that turns its followers’ convulsive expressions of devotion into Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers. A cradle-to-grave portrait of Ann Lee, the founder of the Christian sect known as the Shakers, the film is, at turns, completely stunning and utterly baffling. At its most successful, though, it doesn’t just depict ecclesiastical fervor – it sweeps you up in it. In that way, the movie is really a testament to the performance of Amanda Seyfried. As Lee, she fills her large, expressive eyes with a sense of unwavering belief — appropriate for a woman who came to see herself as the reincarnation of Christ himself.  The movie is a testament to the performance of Amanda Seyfried Informed by an impoverished childhood and staggering personal losses as an adult, the 18th century Mancunian preached a utopian vision of society based in broad egalitarianism and a strict adherence to celibacy. Naturally, that led to persecution at home from the ruling evangelical order, prompting her eventual escape, along with her latent-homosexual brother (Lewis Pullman), bewildered husband (Christopher Abbott) and small flock of disciples, to the alleged promised land of America. Illustrating her life in the tones of a Dutch oil painting, Fastvold treats Lee’s faith with sincerity and respect, and Se

Streaming ain’t easy. Sure, if you’re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what’s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we’re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now. Here are the four must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.  Recommended: 🏆 The best movies of 2026 (so far)🗓️ The most anticipated movies of 2026🆕 What’s new on Netflix in April 2026📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far) 1. Magellan (Criterion Channel) A visually ravishing deconstruction of the myths surrounding Ferdinand Magellan, director Lav Diaz portrays the Portuguese explorer’s expedition to Southeast Asia as a colonialist mission in starkly brutal terms. At nearly three hours, it’s a slow-moving journey into the dark heart of history that’ll test the patience of some viewers, but it’s a rewarding corrective to the prevailing narrative of Magellan’s life – and filled with stunning images at nearly every turn. Watch Magellan now on Criterion Channel 2. Shelby Oaks (Hulu/Disney+) YouTuber Chris Stuckmann graduates from film critic to filmmaker with this eerie supernatural horror that splices together found-footage and traditional narrative into an atmospheric chiller involving a paranormal investigator who goes looking for her missing sister in a midwestern ghost town

Hungry for Beef? The second season of the 2023 breakout miniseries is the highlight of April’s Netflix slate, as it’s apparently getting turned into an anthology with an unrelated story and a brand-new, pretty killer cast. A couple of other returns mark the month, including new seasons of the young-adult romance XO, Kitty, the Kate Hudson basketball comedy Running Point and the animated kid-flick spinoff The Bad Guys: The Series. Oh, and after four long months without them, your old demon-slaying pals from Hawkins, Indiana, are also back - as cartoons. Here are the other movies and shows we’re looking forward to streaming on Netflix this month. What’s new on Netflix April 2026 at a glance: 📍Movies: Thrash (April 10), Roommates (April 17), Apex (April 23)📍Shows: Beef season 2 (April 16), Stranger Things: Tales from '85 (April 23), XO, Kitty season 3 (April 2) Running Point season 2 (April 23), Big Mistakes (April 9) 📍Limited Series: Unchosen (April 20)📍Documentaries: A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough (April 17)   Recommended: 🇳 The best movies on Netflix💻 The best Netflix original series to binge📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 The Bad Guys: The Series season 2  Ever wonder how the criminal animals in the Bad Guys franchise got their starts in the heist business? This animated prequel series is going to tell you. Several stars of the two films, including Chris Diamantopoulos and Michael Godere, reprise their voice roles for the show. Premieres A

Norjalaisen Mona Fastvoldin The Testament of Ann Lee on kummallinen, lumoava ja rapsodinen elämys – tällaisia elokuvia ei juuri ole. Vai tuleeko mieleen toista historiallista kansanmusiikkimusikaalia lähes kadonneesta uskonnollisesta liikkeestä, joka muuttaa seuraajiensa kouristuksenomaiset hartaudenosoitukset suureellisiksi tanssinumeroiksi?  Shakers-nimellä (vapisijat) tunnetun kristillisen lahkon perustajan, Ann Leen, elämäkertakuvaus on vuoroin täysin häikäisevä ja tyystin hämmentävä. Parhaina hetkinään se ei ainoastaan kuvaa uskonnollista hurmosta – se tempaa katsojan siihen mukaan. Tässä mielessä elokuva on todistusvoimainen näyttö Amanda Seyfriedin roolisuorituksesta. Leen roolissa hän täyttää suuret, ilmeikkäät silmänsä järkähtämättömällä uskolla – mikä onkin sopivaa hahmolle, joka alkoi pitää itseään Kristuksen reinkarnaationa. Elokuva tempaa katsojan mukaan uskonnolliseen hurmokseen Köyhän lapsuuden ja aikuisiän musertavien menetysten värittämä 1700-luvun manchesterilainen saarnasi utooppista visiota yhteiskunnasta, joka perustuisi laajaan tasa-arvoon ja tiukkaan selibaattiin. Luonnollisesti se johti vainoon kotimaassa, ja lopulta Ann Lee pakeni luvattuun maahan Amerikkaan yhdessä piilevästi homoseksuaalin veljensä (Lewis Pullman), hämmentyneen aviomiehensä (Christopher Abbott) ja pienen opetuslapsilauman kanssa.  Fastvold kuvittaa Leen elämän hollantilaisen öljyvärimaalauksen sävyillä ja kohtelee tämän uskoa vilpittömyydellä ja kunnioituksella. Seyfried vastaa tähä

After an interminably long awards season that had us arguing over cats and ballet by the end of it, the 98th annual Academy Awards are finally, mercifully over. And, after one of the more unpredictable closing stretches of the race in recent years, we more or less ended up where most of us thought we would three months go, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another ruling the night. The political action thriller won six awards, including Best Picture, with Anderson winning his first Best Director statuette and the conspicuously absent Sean Penn collecting his third overall, this time for Best Supporting Actor. Casting director Cassandra Kulukundis also won the inaugural award for Best Casting. As for One Battle’s arch rival, Sinners, the Ryan Coogler-directed period vampire gangster blues musical blockbuster made history in a few different ways. After being nominated for a record-breaking 16 nominations, it ended up setting a record for most losses, winning four and losing 12. In perhaps the most surprising win of the night, at least given the longstanding predictions, star Michael B Jordan took home Best Actor, a victory that seemed like a longshot up until he prevailed at the Actor Awards two weeks. He is only the sixth Black actor to win the category. Coogler lost out on director but won Best Original Screenplay, becoming the third to win in either screenwriting category. (Anderson won Best Adapted Screenplay.) Ludwig Göransson won his third Oscar for Best Origin

Os amantes de livros têm um ano muito especial pela frente, tanto nas salas de cinema como nas plataformas de streaming. Entre os gigantes da literatura cujas obras vão ser adaptadas encontram-se Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus e Don Winslow. Mas o mais excitante de tudo é talvez o regresso do grande mestre da narrativa épica: Homero vai receber o toque de Christopher Nolan, em versão IMAX, com a adaptação de A Odisseia, com estreia prevista para o Verão. BookTokers, façam uma pausa no desafio de leitura de 2026 e vão ao cinema: este é o vosso momento. O Monte dos Vendavais A adaptação literária de Emerald Fennell promete lançar um verdadeiro cocktail Molotov sobre o debate cultural do início de 2026. A tórrida história de amor de Emily Brontë vai receber uma versão bem à maneira de Fennell, com músicas de Charli XCX, um elenco de fazer correr tinta (Margot Robbie e Jacob Elordi) e até aspas provocatórias no título do cartaz, como se fosse suposto dizê-lo com ironia. O Monte dos Vendavais pode ser um marco do romantismo literário, mas está longe de ser propriamente romântico, pelo que o slogan “a maior história de amor de todos os tempos” poderá deixar os puristas algo confusos.Estreia: 12 de Fevereiro Abaixo de Zero David Koepp adaptou Parque Jurássico, de Michael Crichton, mas aqui assume o papel de autor-realizador de uma história muito ao estilo do próprio Crichton. O romance, publicado em 2019 (e dois anos depois em Portugal), parte de uma premi

Book lovers have a year to savour in store for them at the movie theatre and on streaming. Among the literary giants having their work adapted are Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus and Don Winslow. Most excitingly, the big dog of epic storytelling, Homer, is getting the IMAX-enhanced Christopher Nolan treatment with this summer’s adaption of The Odyssey. BookTokers, this is your moment. Photograph: Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights Emerald Fennell’s literary adaptation is sure to lob a Molotov cocktail in the general direction of early 2026’s cultural discourse. Emily Brontë’s toxic love story is getting a proper Fennelling, with Charlie XCX songs, a buzz-worthy cast (Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi) and provocative quote marks around the title on the poster like you’re supposed to say it in a sarcastic way. Wuthering Heights may be a landmark Romantic novel but it’s not exactly small ’r’ romantic, so that ‘the greatest love story of all time’ tagline may mystify literary types. In cinemas worldwide Feb 13 Photograph: HarperCollins Cold Storage David Koepp adapted Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, but the writer-director has his own Crichton-esque monster tale in the shape of his 2019 novel. It delivers a Cold War-era sci-fi premise in a modern setting, with a military facility breach unleashing a parasitic fungus on employees at a self-storage facility. Liam Neeson, Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Sosie Bacon will be hoping to swerve the blob. The lat

Ya se siente la Navidad, sobre todo en las plataformas de streaming. Cada año, un buen puñado de películas festivas con sabor a roscón salen de la cadena de montaje directas a tu tele (y, de vez en cuando, a los cines). La mayoría son directamente malas, algunas son tan malas que resultan buenas y unas pocas son realmente buenas… o, al menos, lo bastante autoconscientes como para ofrecer una noche divertida reunidos alrededor del brillo de la pantalla. Más raras aún son las que se convierten en auténticos fenómenos virales. En 2024, la fruta escarchada se la llevó Un muñeco de nieve para derretirse, la comedia romántica invernal de Netflix sobre un muñeco de nieve buenorro que cobra vida. ¿Hay alguna película del catálogo de este año que pueda alcanzar ese status? Hemos revisado lo mejorcito de la cosecha navideña de 2025 y las hemos clasificado según sus posibilidades de ponerse tan de moda como "Frosty", el muñequito de nieve. Fotografía: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC En busca de Joy (Prime Video) Ideal para: Amantes de Tyler Perry ¿Tyler Perry presentando Misery como una comedia romántica? En la nueva película del incansable guionista-director-productor, Shannon Thornton interpreta a una diseñadora de moda neoyorquina insatisfecha con la trayectoria de su carrera que sigue a su crush hasta Colorado, solo para acabar derrapando en una carretera helada, donde es rescatada por un ermitaño sorprendentemente guapo, interpretado por Tosin Morohunfola. ¿Le ens

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, especially on streaming services. Every year, a stuffed stocking’s worth of peppermint-sweet holiday flicks roll off the assembly line and onto your television (and occasionally theaters). Most are straight-up bad, some are so-bad-they’re-good, and a select few are genuinely good – or at least, self-aware enough to make for a fun night gathered ‘round the glow of the TV set. Rarer still are those which become legit viral phenomenons. In 2024, that was Hot Frosty, Netflix’s winking winter romcom about a hunky snowman come to life. Are there any films from this year’s slate that might attain the same status? We’ve perused the cream of the 2025 yuletide crop, and ranked them by their chances to get as hot as Frosty.  Recommended: 🎅🏻The best Christmas movies of all-time🎄The best Christmas movies for kids to watch this year🎁The best Christmas specials of all-time Photograph: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC Tyler Perry's Finding Joy (Prime Video) Ideal for: Tyler Perry completists Tyler Perry presents Misery as a romcom? In the indefatigable writer-director-producer’s latest, Shannon Thornton is a New York fashion designer dissatisfied with her career trajectory who follows her crush to Colorado, only to wind up skidding off an icy road where she’s rescued by an improbably handsome hermit, played by Tosin Morohunfola. Will this rugged mountain man teach her to appreciate the things that truly matter in life? No spoilers!

Halloween ne tombe qu’un jour par an, mais les plus fervents adeptes de la fête trouvent toujours le moyen d’en faire un mois entier. Et quoi de mieux pour ça que de se plonger dans des films ? Rien de plus simple, après tout : il existe tout un genre cinématographique consacré à l’art de faire hurler les spectateurs de peur. Mais contrairement à ce qu’on croit souvent, il y a une vraie différence entre les meilleurs films d’horreur et les meilleurs films d’Halloween. Un film comme Ne vous retournez pas (Don’t Look Now) figure peut-être parmi les œuvres les plus bouleversantes du genre, mais il est sans doute un peu trop cérébral pour la « saison des frissons ». En revanche, les apocalypses zombies, histoires de fantômes, massacres à la tronçonneuse et mélanges de monstres ? Là, on est pile dans le thème. Alors, pour vous aider à composer votre programme d’octobre, on a concocté cette liste de films d’Halloween à voir le 31 au soir. Suspiria (1977) Sur le papier, le conte macabre de Dario Argento ne paie pas de mine : une danseuse américaine timide intègre une mystérieuse académie de ballet en Europe, où d’étranges phénomènes ne tardent pas à se manifester. Mais ce point de départ simple permet au maître du giallo de s’en donner à cœur joie : couleurs hallucinées, mises à mort stylisées, et bande-son cauchemardesque signée par les rockeurs progressifs italiens Goblin. Un cauchemar baroque qui hante encore les nuits des cinéphiles. Shining (1980) Si vous ne revoyez pas Shini

Somehow haven’t gotten enough of KPop Demon Hunters? Correction: have your kids still not gotten enough?  Well, if you missed catching the animated musical sensation in theaters during its limited run in August, you’re in luck, because it’s coming back to cinemas, just in time for Halloween. Starting October 31, the movie will screen in select theaters in several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. And yes, singing along is once again encouraged – and given the time period, so are costumes. Initially released on Netflix back in June, the film, focusing on a mega-popular girl group who are also charged with protecting humanity from soul-sucking, shapeshifting beasties, came out of nowhere to become an almost instant phenomenon. It’s now officially the most popular movie in the history of the platform, topping 325,100,000 views. Four songs from the soundtrack, including the inescapable chart-topper ‘Golden’, occupied the Billboard Top 10 simultaneously, while the vocal trio of EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI recently made their live debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Tickets for the upcoming screenings go on sale October 17 at 6 am. Find a screening nearest you here. Best to act fast: the movie will only be in theaters for three days, ending November 2. Then you’ll have to go back to singing alone in your home on an endless loop. The best family movies of 2025 (so far) The best Halloween movies for kids on Netflix

If you’re like most Taylor Swift fans, you simply cannot get enough content from your queen. Good thing, then, that she seemingly never stops cranking it out. Not only did she just release her sixth album in seven years, the record-breaking The Lift of a Showgirl – available in 27 different physical variations – it coincided with both a box-office-topping cinematic event, a two-part Channel 4 documentary and the announcement of her engagement to football player Travis Kelce, whose eventual wedding will almost certainly produce a tidal wave of content on its own. Now, the pop megastar has two more film projects guaranteed to capture untold millions of eyeballs. Not even a year after her world-dominating Eras Tour finally ended, a six-part docuseries chronicling the production of her globe-spanning, generation-defining, economy-shifting concert tour is coming to Disney+. According to a press release, The End of an Era ‘gives an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world’ and features cameos from contemporaries such as Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch. (What, no Charli XCX?) The doc premieres December 12 – the day before Swift’s 36th birthday – with two episodes dropping each week. The same day, Disney+ will also debut The Eras Tour: The Final Show, a full concert film indeed shot at the final stop of the 149-date tour, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, on December 8, 2024. You might

Eh bien, il n’aura pas fallu 28 ans, ni même 28 semaines : l’un des meilleurs films d’horreur de l’année débarque déjà sur une plateforme de streaming. 28 Ans plus tard, le retour du réalisateur Danny Boyle et du scénariste Alex Garland dans un monde ravagé par le tristement célèbre virus de la Rage, arrive sur Netflix en France ce samedi 20 septembre. Techniquement, c’est le troisième volet de la saga entamée en 2002 avec 28 Days Later, suivi en 2007 par 28 Weeks Later du réalisateur espagnol Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Mais ce nouvel épisode prend quelques libertés, allant jusqu’à effacer une partie des événements du précédent film. Situé près de trois décennies après l’apparition du virus – qui transforme les infectés en machines à tuer convulsives et ultra-rapides – le film dépeint des îles Britanniques mises en quarantaine du reste du monde, revenues à une forme de stabilité, certes primitive mais fonctionnelle. L’intrigue suit une famille en particulier : Aaron Taylor-Johnson incarne le patriarche, le jeune Alfie Williams son fils, et Jodie Comer la mère de ce dernier, rongée par une mystérieuse maladie. Ce qui commence comme une aventure initiatique de survie bascule, dans sa seconde moitié, en une méditation profondément émouvante sur l’acceptation de la mort comme partie intégrante de la vie. Porté par une bande-annonce déjà culte, 28 Ans plus tard est sorti en salles en juin et a cartonné au box-office, engrangeant 151 244 007 dollars dans le monde. Côté criti